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An American expat who is well-known for his efforts in cleaning up Hanoi has been collecting second-hand items and selling them to raise funds for environmental protection activities since 2019. The project aims to raise awareness about the importance of fixing, recycling, and reusing old items instead of throwing them away. The shop is located in a three-floor house on Lac Long Quan Street in Tay Ho District, Hanoi, where young people have come up with projects to revitalize the city, reduce waste, and study the reuse of second-hand products to protect the environment. The small shop is filled with a wide range of items that are neatly arranged. “At the beginning, we had more foreign customers visiting the shop, but now we have more local customers,” said Tran Nguyen Ngoc, a part-time employee and teacher at the shop. Every day at 9:00 am, Ngoc classifies and arranges items while receiving donations from residents across the northern region. As the project gained popularity, more

Many restaurants from Michelin’s prestigious selection will be featured at the 2nd Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival, which will take place from November 3 to 5 on the walking area of Tran Nhan Tong Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi. This event offers tourists a chance to explore the traditional cuisine, street food, snacks, and signature dishes available in the capital, ranging from local street vendors to high-end restaurants. The Hanoi Tourism Department expects that the activities and attractive displays at the event will stimulate tourism and enhance the image of Hanoi as an appealing and secure tourist destination. One of the highlights of this year’s Hanoi Tourism Gift Festival is the Food Court, where visitors can delve into Hanoi’s rich and distinctive culinary scene, including the offerings from Michelin-starred restaurants. Moreover, artisans, craft villages, souvenir shops, and tour operators will also have the opportunity to showcase and promote their products while seekin

As the winner in the Established Artist category, Minh Tien will receive a cash prize of VND500 million (US$20,300) and will compete with winning artists from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand for the prestigious UOB Southeast Asian Painting of the Year 2023 Award. UOB (United Overseas Bank) is a Singaporean multinational banking corporation. The painter also stands a chance to be selected for a one-month residency program at the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. The 2023 UOB Southeast Asian Painting of the Year award will be announced at an awards ceremony in Singapore on November 8, 2023. Through “Thuy Phu – Water Palace”, artist Minh Tien conveys the concept of impermanence, illustrating the continual transformation of history and religion through the imprint of architecture. Using airbrush painting techniques, the artist skillfully creates the reflection of St. Joseph’s Cathedral on the hood of a car, as the cathedral casts its silhouette on the rain-slic

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  carried out a reforestation campaign to plant 1,000 trees in Dakrong Nature Reserve in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam. The four students attending Le Quy Don High School in Quang Tri’s Dong Ha City sowed a total of 1,000 saplings of breeds native to Dakrong Nature Reserve within one day, the provincial chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union confirmed on the same day. The initiative, called ‘Green Era,’ started in August and raised over VND120 million (US$4,884), all of which was used to purchase the 1,000 saplings. After planting trees on one hectare of land in Dakrong Nature Reserve, the group plans to launch another fundraising campaign to expand reforestation efforts to a different area. Ha Si Dong, the People’s Committee of Quang Tri Province’s permanent deputy chairman, praised ‘Green Era’ as a meaningful, practical, and responsible campaign. “This project prompts considerable contemplation among adults,” affirmed Dong. Like us on Facebook or follow u

The underground Opera House station is the second among 14 stations of the first metro line to reach completion. The metro station is 190 meters long, and 26 meters wide, and features four basements. Its first basement encompasses such facilities as a waiting lounge, ticket machines, a restroom, and automated fee collection gates, while the second and fourth basements function as platforms where passengers can board trains.  The third floor houses equipment for employees at the station, a safety control system, a rest area, and rooms containing electric tools and devices. The Opera House station was designed to have five exits to Lam Son Park, Union Square Tower, and Pasteur Street. The 19.7-kilometer-long metro line, which carries a price tag of VND43.7 trillion (US$1.8 billion), has 17 trains, each consisting of three cars and designed to run at up to 110 kilometers per hour above the ground and 80 kilometers per hour underground. Each Japanese-manufactured train is 61.5 meters

On the evening of October 28, the Hanoi Singing Contest, organized by Hanoi Radio and Television, held its final round. The contest featured 12 contestants across three genres: Chamber Music, Folk Music, and Light Music, as well as a song about Hanoi. Tran Thi Van Anh, an 18-year-old contestant from the central province of Ha Tinh, competed in the folk music genre and won first prize. She is the youngest participant in this year’s competition. The Hanoi Singing Contest marks Van Anh’s first entry into a professional music contest. During the final round, Tran Thi Van Anh delivered an outstanding performance. Her talent and dedication were clear to the judging panel, earning her the top prize. The photo captures the intensity and emotion of Tran Thi Van Anh’s performance, which deeply impressed the audience and judges. In addition to Tran Thi Van Anh, three more contestants were recognized for their exceptional performances. Ho Van Kanh received second place in the light music catego

Vietnam International Fashion Week Fall Winter 2023 is set to take place at the Quan Ngua Sports Palace in Hanoi from November 8-11, playing a vital role in shaping the future of Vietnamese fashion. According to Trang Le, Chairman of the Association of Southeast Asian Fashion Designers (CAFD) and President of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW), the 16th season of VIFW will bring together esteemed designers such as Ivan Tran, Thao Nguyen, Hoang Quyen, Prio Oktaviano (Indonesia), Cao Minh Tien, and Henry Kof, among others.  President of Vietnam International Fashion Week Trang Le (center) and fashion designers. Photo: The Hanoi Times Notably, designer Xuan Thu Nguyen (Netherlands) will be making a homecoming with her brand XUAN. She will be the first Vietnamese designer invited by the French Haute Couture Federation to participate in the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. The event will also showcase collections by young designer Phan Dang Hoang, who recently left

With only a few days left until Halloween (on October 31) season 2023, Hanoi’s downtown toy streets are filled with colorful playthings and masks, hats, mannequins, skeletons, and scythes, providing selfie photo opportunities for many young people. Hang Ma Street Hang Ma Street is a street in Hanoi that is the go-to spot during the Halloween season. A month ahead of the festival, Hang Ma Street is brightly and magically decorated with a series of mannequins, masks, clothes, colorful lanterns, and scary toys. These days, it is packed with people shopping, taking selfies, and savoring the lively environment. Hang Ma Street is an ideal backdrop for photography on this occasion. Ho Guom Pedestrian Street Every Halloween, young people often turn the wide pedestrian street into a fashion runway where they show off their bizarre costumes and unique makeup. There are also many interesting activities such as dressing up, mask painting, exciting magic shows, or street performances. Don’t w

EPVN was established in 2007 by parents who wanted to assist orphaned children in Vietnam and enhance the relationship between Vietnam and France. Its main goal is to improve the living conditions of children in orphanages and disadvantaged families in Vietnam through humanitarian aid, such as providing supplementary food or milk for infants, conducting vaccination campaigns, organizing medical activities, supplying hygiene products, and raising awareness in these areas. Speaking at the gala, Vietnamese Ambassador to France Dinh Toan Thang expressed his appreciation for the work EPVN has done for Vietnamese children. He emphasized that the Vietnamese culture week in Versailles is an important and meaningful event, particularly as the countries celebrate the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of their strategic partnership. Mayor of Versailles François de Mazières highlighted that the culture week has showcased the spirit of solidarity and creati

Every November, the Thao Nguyen Flower Garden on the banks of the Red River in Hanoi has become a must-visit destination for ox-eye daisy lovers. This year, the flowering season came early, with the flowers in full bloom since late October. The 2,000-square-meter flower garden features more than 10,000 daisies planted in midsummer and in full bloom in late fall and early winter. According to the owner of the flower garden, the daisies here are sown in a cold nursery. The young plants are then nurtured for four to five months to mature and produce the most brilliant flowers. The most favorable time to photograph the daisy in the gardens is early in the morning and late in the afternoon, when the sunlight is not too intense and allows for more harmonious and fairly bright photos. The garden is in full bloom in late fall and early winter. Photos: Huy Pham/The Hanoi Times The plants produce the most brilliant flowers in this season. The tiny pure w

From the lighthouse at Dai Lanh cape, Tortorelli operated a drone to capture, as he described it, “the stunning array of colors that adorned the sky”. “As I watched the live feed from my drone, the scene unfolded before my eyes like a dream,” said Tortorelli, who shared a photo of the sunrise with his 9,000 Instagram followers @with.b3n. “In that moment of serenity, a sense of gratitude filled my heart for the privilege of witnessing such an awe-inspiring morning.” A photo taken by Benjamin Tortorelli of Mui Dien lighthouse in Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam. That July sunrise was not Tortorelli’s first photograph from Phu Yen. In fact, the 35-year-old photographer’s Instagram is filled with photos of Phu Yen landmarks that he has captured during his seven visits to the province. These include snapshots of the Tuyet Diem salt fields and O Loan Lagoon. A bird’s-eye view taken by Benjamin Tortorelli of farmers working on a salt field in Tuyet Diem salt vi

The audience who completely filled Nguyen Du Indoor Stadium were captivated by the breathtaking performances of Vai, a three-time Grammy Award-winning artist, and his talented colleagues. They were truly amazed by Vai’s extraordinary Hydra guitar, a multi-faceted instrument with two headstocks and three necks, featuring 7 and 12-string guitars, a 4-string ¾ scale length bass, 13 sympathetic harp strings, half-fretless necks, single-coil, humbucking, piezo, MIDI, and sustainer pickups, as well as floating and hardtail tremolo bridges and phase splitters. This concert in Vietnam marks Vai’s first performance in the country, celebrating his 45-year-long music career and promoting his latest album, Inviolate. Vietnam is the inaugural destination of Vai’s Inviolate World Tour in Southeast Asia. Vai, at the age of 63, is an accomplished American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. He has been nominated for Grammy Awards 15 times and has been honored with the prestigious award three

The Vietnam Professional Basketball League (VBA) organized the selection process for outstanding individual awards during the 2023 VBA Finals. The selection board consisted of prominent figures in the Vietnamese basketball community, including deputy chairman of the Vietnam Basketball Federation (VBF) Huynh Trong Khai and Nguyen Tran Phuc, a member of the VBF inspection committee. After preliminary considerations, 17-year-old Pham Nhat Thai Quang was selected to join the ‘Rookie of the Year’ candidate roster. The nominee list for the ‘Rookie of the Year’ award at the 2023 VBA. Photo: VBA The rising star from the Thang Long Warriors created quite a buzz during the initial phases of the 2023 VBA season thanks to his remarkable courage and confidence.  In the group stage alone, the teenage guard played a total of 274 minutes. Quang played in 17 out of 18 matches for the Thang Long Warriors, including two appearances in the starting lineup.  He maintained an average of 4.7

‘Weekend 31,’ the English singer on Sunday wrote on her verified Facebook account while posting photos capturing moments from the 31st show of her ‘Weekends with Adele” residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The residency is a series of Friday and Saturday night shows, which began on November 18 last year and is scheduled to wrap up on November 4 this year.  In the photos, the singer is seen in a dress designed by Cong Tri, a luxury brand owned by renowned Vietnamese designer Nguyen Cong Tri, whose designs have been worn by stars from around the world several times in recent years. “Adele chose a Swarovski-adorned velvet dress customized by Cong Tri for a performance at the ‘Weekends with Adele’ live show in Las Vegas, USA,” the brand announced on its verified Facebook account on Tuesday. A photo posted on Cong Tri brand’s verified Facebook account shows English singer Adele wearing a dress by Nguyen Cong Tri in the 31st show of her ‘Weekends with Adele’ residency co

Every day, Nguyen Tuyet Nhung patiently waits until 7 p.m. for her children and grandchildren to come home from school and work, and the entire family gathers around the table. Sharing a meal and discussing their day is a tradition that Nhung’s family strives to uphold, even in the absence of her late husband. “In today’s world, my children are either busy or engrossed in their own social interests, and I feel that dinner time is the only opportunity for family interaction,” she expressed, emphasizing the importance of family culture in fostering a civilized society. This concern is also shared by the authorities of Hanoi city. According to Do Dinh Hong, the Director of Hanoi’s Department of Culture and Sports, there is still a prevalence of uncultured behaviors in daily life, and families face challenges in strengthening the connection between family members. The moral standards of Hanoi people and the capital’s family value system are being undermined in today’s society. To address

Hanoi has been awarded the prestigious title of World’s Best Golf City Destination 2023, surpassing famous cities like Paris and New York in the field of golf tourism. This achievement was announced at the 10th World Golf Awards ceremony held on October 23 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Representatives of Hanoi at the award ceremony of the 10th World Golf Awards 2023 in the United Arab Emirates. Photo: World Golf Awards An online voting was conducted on the worldgolfawards.com website to select the best golf destination, and Hanoi received positive feedback from golf experts, media organizations, golf tour companies, golf course owners, hotels, and golf associations from various countries worldwide. A representative from the Hanoi Tourism Department expressed that this award is a great source of pride for Hanoi, showcasing the city’s continuous efforts in the development of the tourism industry. Situated in the northern part of Vietnam, Hanoi benefits from its ide

The weather forecast in different regions In the Northwest region, the weather is predicted to be cloudy and sunny during the day, and light rain at night. The lowest temperature will be between 21-24 degrees and the highest temperature will be between 27-30 degrees, with some places reaching over 30 degrees. In the Northeast region, the weather will be cloudy with sunny days, and there may be thunderstorms in some areas at night. During thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning, and strong winds are possible. The lowest temperature will be between 22-25 degrees and the highest temperature will be between 27-30 degrees, with some places reaching over 30 degrees. In Thanh Hoa – Thua Thien Hue, the weather will be cloudy and sunny during the day, with high temperatures, and moderate to heavy rain in the evening and night. During thunderstorms, tornadoes, lightning, and strong winds are possible. The lowest temperature will be between 22-25 degrees and the highest temperature will be betw

The tea hill is located in Long Coc commune, Thanh Son district, Phu Tho province, which is about 125 km from Hanoi. This is considered one of the most beautiful tea hills in Vietnam. It is also an ideal place to chill and get away from the crowded streets and busy life of the city and allow yourself to immerse yourself in the tranquility of nature. From a distance, the tea hills are located close together and look like giant bowls, creating undulating and overlapping patterns. On the horizon are towering limestone mountains, contributing to the unique landscape of this wonderful place. The majestic scenery of Long Coc tea hill from above. Photo: hanoimoi Phu Tho Province is home to the Muong ethnic minority group. Tea trees have been attached to the lives of the Muong people for many generations. They are identified as a key agricultural product, not only bringing revenue to the locals but also the potential to develop tourism. In recent years, the number of visitors

With its geographical conditions, geological resources, minerals, and medicinal plants, Vietnam has the potential to become one of the emerging leaders in the field of medical tourism. Experts, researchers, and travel companies have highlighted the importance of tapping into these resources. Nguyen Van Luu, a former senior specialist of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, emphasizes the need to mobilize resources with a long-term utilization strategy. Human resources, financial resources, infrastructure, policies, and others are all important factors for the development of medical tourism. However, these resources are finite and some are already declining and scarce. Without a sustainable utilization strategy, these resources will be exhausted in a short period of time. Therefore, it is crucial to “awaken” forgotten potential and harness the comprehensive power of resources to optimize and effectively utilize the medical tourism industry. Local authorities must also consider

This group of participants included 1,000 children and 15 international athletes from 14 countries and territories. This event is the second edition of its kind, meeting international standards recognized by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS). The tournament officially began on Sunday morning, offering 5km, 10km, 21km, and 42km races for both professional and amateur runners. The runners who participated in this tournament can use their results to register for prestigious running events around the world, such as the World Six Majors. These events take place annually in Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City. On Saturday afternoon, the races for children as part of the tournament were completed. Nguyen Phuoc Thien, vice-chairman of the People’s Committee of Dong Thap Province, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Dat Sen Hong (The Land of Pink Lotus) Marathon held in the provinci

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The model comes from the idea of ​​connecting history to the present by trams, when Hanoi once had a tram network featuring five lines, running from 1901 to 1991. The model reminds local people of city life in Hanoi in the 1990s. The model is equipped with a modern sound and lighting system and features many details of folk culture. The double decker streetcar is equipped with a modern sound and lighting system and features many details of folk culture. The first deck displays artifacts, paintings, photos, and documents of Hanoi from the old time. Indeed, many precious Vietnamese tea products are also on showcase. After two weeks of operation, the service has received plenty of positive feedback from both domestic and foreign tourists alike. The space is expected to help international friends gain a greater understanding about Vietnamese culture. Since its inauguration early this year, the Dao Ngoc-Ngu Xa food and pedestrian zone has become a new culinary destination in Hanoi.

Vladimir Moiseenko, director of the Napalkova cancer centre in St. Petersburg – one of Russia’s leading cancer diagnosis and treatment establishments, expressed his interest in further enhancing collaboration in cancer treatment with Vietnam at a recent interview with VNA. Moiseenko, also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said cancer is on the rise in every country, particularly in developing nations like Vietnam. Successful cancer treatment largely depends on early detection, and it is crucial to focus on identifying tumors at an early stage. Vladimir Moiseenko, Director of the Napalkova cancer centre in St. Petersburg. Photo: VNA According to the oncologist, Russia has been actively implementing early detection programmes, and over 50% of patients diagnosed in the early stages can be completely cured. When the disease reaches its later stages, treatment mainly aims to prolong life or ensure a better quality of life for patients. The Napalkova cancer centre,

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam will host the annual Japanese Film Festival in Vietnam later this month to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Vietnam. The festival will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from October 27 to November 9 (at CineStars Hai Ba Trung); Danang from November 17 to 19 (Metiz Cinema); Haiphong (Galaxy Nguyen Kim Cinema) from December 1 to 3; and in Hanoi from December 8 to 21 (National Cinema Center). Japanese movies presented at the Japanese Film Festivals in Vietnam have been known to be the latest releases in Japan with a variety of titles and genres that offer the audience the opportunity to see Japan from different perspectives. Eight Japanese movies are set to be screened during the nearly two-month film festival including the drama titled The Water Flows To The Sea, the comedy/romance film Liar x Liar, the anime The First Slam Dunk, and others. The highlight of the fest